Plantation Ideal Landscapes of Extraction in Mozambique

Plantations have been the privileged tool of colonial rule and extraction in Mozambique for more than one hundred years despite never having delivered sustained economic or social benefits. Drawing on extensive archival and qualitative contemporary research, The Plantation Ideal offers new insights into plantation economies, histories, and landscapes. Wendy Wolford tells the story of how the largely failed pursuit of plantation production has shaped agricultural science, government rule, life on the land, and community development in Mozambique from the harshest years of Portuguese colonization to the present.

About the author

Wendy Wolford is Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development at Cornell University. She is author of This Land Is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil, coauthor of To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil, and coeditor of several books, including Governing Global Land Deals and The Social Lives of Land.

Product details

• Authors: Wolford Wendy, Wendy Wolford
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 04.11.2025
• Subject: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories
• EAN: 9780520416864
• ISBN: 978-0-520-41686-4
• Pages: 302
• Dimensions (packing): 15.3 x 23 x 2 cm
• Series: Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics > 18
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Rural communities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, Human Geography, Settlement, urban and rural geography, Rural communities / rural life, Rural Livelihoods, plantation economy;ProSavana project;Mozambique agrarian history;colonial land policies;agrarian development;land tenure systems;resistance movements;sugarcane plantation struggles;agrarian political economy;labor systems;land grabbing controversies;, agricultural modernization, labor systems, resistance movements, agrarian political economy, land tenure systems, agrarian development, ProSavana project, land grabbing controversies, sugarcane plantation struggles, colonial land policies, Mozambique agrarian history